Congress' Nandigram Pick Arrested After Mamata Banerjee Announces Support
Congress candidate Milan Pradhan has been arrested in West Bengal in connection with an old alleged murder case, hours after former chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced that her faction would support his candidature in the October 6 Nandigram Assembly bypoll.
Pradhan was arrested in connection with a murder case during the 2007 Nandigram anti-land acquisition protests. The movement in Nandigram in 2007 is one of the defining struggles of Mamata Banerjee's political career. It helped the Trinamool Congress build its campaign against the Left Front, which had governed West Bengal for 34 years. The Trinamool Congress eventually came to power in 2011 and governed Bengal uninterrupted until the BJP put a spanner in the works in 2026 by winning the assembly elections.
